Though DePaul men’s basketball’s last winning season was back in 2006-07, we’ve nevertheless been fortunate to witness firsthand a revolving door of NBA-level talent at Allstate Arena, which hosted the likes of Kemba Walker, Jae Crowder, Wesley Johnson, even Hasheem Thabeet.
Unfortunately for the Blue Demons and their fans, not one of these eventual NBA players ever donned a DePaul uniform.
And keeping with recent tradition, we watched DePaul once again get bested by blue-chip recruits more tempted by the spoils of a successful team in a smaller city, rather than by the past achievements of a now-waning program in the nation’s third-largest market.